Get him a good defense.....the NFC is turning into a conference of defense

From the niners to the seahawks to the panthers to the saints......I didn't really see much from russell wilson and colin kaepernick to say they are better than Rg3....but having a great defense really helps...it ease the pressure when the offense fails. Until we build our defense like the niners and seahawks...we shouldn't expect super bowls any time soon

Man, I've been saying this all year! He has so much more to do to get a w then those teams because of their D. Add in Az, Stl, and kind of chi not as good as they used to be.. but point being rgiii had to put the team on his back and score a gazillion points to seal the deal. He is far from perfect but won't win a game w less then 350+ yards through the air and with his legs. Some of those other guys get the w with sub 150 yard games! I'd bet he still has more passing yards then Wilson even minus the 4 games and counting Wilson's post season.. with less being needed to win, u get less picks, less scrambles, less hits.. seems like he is always trying to do too much... Granted, he knows a 21 point lead is never safe with our terrible D!

cowboykillerzRGiii wrote:Man, I've been saying this all year! He has so much more to do to get a w then those teams because of their D. Add in Az, Stl, and kind of chi not as good as they used to be.. but point being rgiii had to put the team on his back and score a gazillion points to seal the deal. He is far from perfect but won't win a game w less then 350+ yards through the air and with his legs. Some of those other guys get the w with sub 150 yard games! I'd bet he still has more passing yards then Wilson even minus the 4 games and counting Wilson's post season.. with less being needed to win, u get less picks, less scrambles, less hits.. seems like he is always trying to do too much... Granted, he knows a 21 point lead is never safe with our terrible D!

I couldn't agree more. Our D was ranked just about dead last in points allowed. 478 points compared to Seattle allowing only 231. Clearly that is putting more pressure on RGIII and everybody else, changing the way they're forced to play.

If Haslett can get even a modest improvement on the defense, it should be a huge boost to the offense.

Here is a question for you brainiacs though. We were dead last in points allowed, but middle of the pack in yards allowed. How is that? Too many turnovers on offense? Bad special teams?

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riggofan wrote:It kind of cracks me up to see a thread with the word "super bowl" in it.

Super Bowl? Man, I would be thrilled just to be a functional, competitive team for three or four years in a row. Is that too much to hope for?

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riggofan wrote:It kind of cracks me up to see a thread with the word "super bowl" in it.

Super Bowl? - I would be thrilled just to be a functional, competitive team for three or four years in a row. Is that too much to hope for?

me too but that is not happening for some time here

the Redskins have a lot of work to do to be a consistently competitive team again - it's really unrealistic to think about getting there in the near term we have made some improvements in how to manage an NFL franchise and we've added some players we can build around having a future great QB is a huge step but it still will take more than 1 season to get this franchise back to a decent level again

we might make the playoffs but we would not be very competitive - we're looking at 2015 at the earliest and only if a whole bunch of good things happen = NOT LIKELY

we seem to have made a step in the right direction by having a HC and an FO that will operate with more accountability but we have a lot of issues to address

wake up guys - properly building a team with good depth takes more than a year ...

P A T I E N C E - Scot & Jay's goal here is to make this franchise better - it will take time they understand the need to change to primarily building through the draft - plus have some luck go their way

SkinsJock wrote:the Redskins have a lot of work to do to be a consistently competitive team again - it's really unrealistic to think about getting there in the near term

wake up guys - properly building a team with good depth takes more than a year ...

Well, when I wrote "consistently competitive team" I meant a team that was competitive year after year. So clearly, that can't happen in just one year. The team could go 8-8 next year, and I won't complain as long as they look like they're on the right track.

I have to admit my definition of "competitive" at this point isn't very strict either. I'd just like to watch a team that looks every Sunday like they have a legitimate chance to win the game. Nearly every game in 2013 was a joke.

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riggofan wrote:I'd just like to watch a team that looks every Sunday like they have a legitimate chance to win the game. Nearly every game in 2013 was a joke.

I disagree with that. There were more games that were close, than there were where we had no chance.

lol. Well, I'm not sure why you would bother to disagree with that. And I'm not really arguing that I want to see the final scores be "close". I said I wanted to watch games where we had a "legitimate chance to win the game". Not sure I consider finishing games with 30 seconds left needing a TD and a two point conversion, an onside kick recovery and a field goal to be all that legitimate.

Those are eight losses right there, and anybody who watched them knows how "close" they were in reality. Personally I'd throw the Detroit loss in as well. Yeah we lost by a touchdown, but we managed to score 6 points in the entire second half.

Just my perception of the season.

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riggofan wrote:I'd just like to watch a team that looks every Sunday like they have a legitimate chance to win the game. Nearly every game in 2013 was a joke.

I disagree with that. There were more games that were close, than there were where we had no chance.

lol. Well, I'm not sure why you would bother to disagree with that. And I'm not really arguing that I want to see the final scores be "close". I said I wanted to watch games where we had a "legitimate chance to win the game". Not sure I consider finishing games with 30 seconds left needing a TD and a two point conversion, an onside kick recovery and a field goal to be all that legitimate.

Those are eight losses right there, and anybody who watched them knows how "close" they were in reality. Personally I'd throw the Detroit loss in as well. Yeah we lost by a touchdown, but we managed to score 6 points in the entire second half.

Just my perception of the season.

Maybe not that first game (though we went for 2, had a safety, and missed a FG = 6 points), but the others I highlighted, and a few of the rest, I'd say we had a legitimate chance to win. We had some bad breaks, very poor special teams, and several reffing issues (both Hoculi games, of which Detroit was one) that effectively shut us down in several games that we were more competitive than the final score indicated.

funsho2 wrote:Get him a good defense.....the NFC is turning into a conference of defense

From the niners to the seahawks to the panthers to the saints......I didn't really see much from russell wilson and colin kaepernick to say they are better than Rg3....but having a great defense really helps...it ease the pressure when the offense fails. Until we build our defense like the niners and seahawks...we shouldn't expect super bowls any time soon

REALLY???? Ive never heard DEFENSE wins championships....One hand washes the other though as an offense helps a defense stay fresh by sustaining drives or makes opposing offenses 1 dimensional with a substantial lead....and a defense/st helps an offense with extra possesions off of turnovers or a short field with a good return

riggofan wrote:Here is a question for you brainiacs though. We were dead last in points allowed, but middle of the pack in yards allowed. How is that? Too many turnovers on offense? Bad special teams?

A few relevant tidbits:

The Redskins defense has allowed 409 points or 27.2 points per game against. Anybody with half a brain (I hope that includes YOU) should understand that a defensive unit should not be charged for the SEVEN return touchdowns that the offense and special teams have gift wrapped for the Redskins opponents. That's 49 points taken away from the commonly cited 458 that you can not charge the defense with. They weren't even on the field.

The Redskins defense under Jim Haslett also begins drives with the worst starting field position in the NFL. According to FootballOutsiders.com defensive drive stats, Washington's opponents start their possessions at the 31.98 yard line on average. That reality is almost laughable.

Perhaps the most damning stat that illustrates a defensive unit that has had their backs consistently against the wall, is that TEN of the 50 touchdowns the unit has allowed have been on drives of 30 yards or less. That's 20 % of all touchdown drives allowed. Don't know about you, but that is preposterous.

To further illustrate, six of those ten touchdowns have been scored on drives of 15 yards or less. Again, these are not excuses but the facts would suggest that the Redskins defense has been put in awful situations and while they have not been able to bail out the offense or special teams, they certainly are not as bad as many think.